Peaches Goes It Alone

Frederick Seidel

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780571348206
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

This is the End of Days.
This is what we've been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend Life.

Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel's newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel-and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, and elegiac, Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel's masterful body of work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Athena
• Too Much
• The Storm
• The Ezra Pound Look-Alike
• I Ride an Old Paint
• Miss Charlotte
• Modigliani
• And now good-morrow to our waking souls
• In Late December
• England Now
• Amsterdam
• Paris
• Baudelaire in Brussels
• Trump
• Trump for President!
• Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead
• Abusers
• November 9, 2016
• A Dip in David Salle’s Pool
• Ducati Years, Ducati Days
• Chernobyl
• Epithalamion for Stein and Stein
• Three Poems That Mention Pierre Leval and One That Doesn’t
• Thanksgiving 2016
• To Mac Griswold
• Mother’s Day Night
• Near the New Whitney
• Roupell Street
• Hall of Famer
• Autumn
• For X—with Love and Squalor
• Quand vous serez bien vieille
• Shakespeare
• Worst When It’s Poetry
• Barbara Epstein
• Envoi
• Verdant Valley
• The Drop Droops Achingly Before It Falls
• Police Cars, Ambulances, Fire Trucks
• Now
• For Saylor, for Use Later
• One of the Bridesmaids
• Hymn to Aphrodite
• Paris, 1960
• The Blue Suit
• Surf’s Up
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright